Editing Walter Huston (section)

==Early life==
Huston was born on April 6, 1883 or 1884, in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]],<ref name=yrt1/><ref name=yrt2/><ref name=yrt3/><ref name=yrt4/> where he attended Winchester Street Public School.<ref name="northernstars.ca">{{cite web|url=http://www.northernstars.ca/actorsghi/huston_walter_bio.html |title=Walter Huston - Northernstars.ca |access-date=October 2, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115071335/http://www.northernstars.ca/actorsghi/huston_walter_bio.html |archive-date=November 15, 2012 }}</ref> He was the son of Elizabeth (née McGibbon) and Robert Moore Huston, a farmer who founded a construction company.<ref name=eye>{{Cite book|last=Morrison|first=Michael A.|title=John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor (Volume 10 of Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama)|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1999|page=75|isbn=0-521-62979-9}}</ref> He was of Scottish and Irish descent.<ref name=oea>{{Cite book|last=Huston|first=John|title=An Open Book|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=1994|page=9|isbn=0-306-80573-1}}</ref> He had a brother and two sisters, one of whom was the theatrical voice coach Margaret Carrington (1877–1941).{{Citation needed |date=October 2023}} 

His family moved, before his birth, from [[Caledon Township, Ontario|Melville]],<ref>Arthur Huston, "Melville Junction", Wm. Perkins Bull fonds, ca. 1934. Available at the Region of Peel Archives, Brampton.</ref> just south of [[Orangeville, Ontario]], where they were farmers. As a young man, he worked in construction and in his spare time attended the Shaw School of Acting. He made his stage debut in 1902. He went on to tour in ''In Convict Stripes'', a play by [[Hal Reid (actor)|Hal Reid]], father of [[Wallace Reid]], and also appeared with [[Richard Mansfield]] in ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]''. He again toured in another play, ''[[The Sign of the Cross (play)|The Sign of the Cross]]''. In 1904, he married Rhea Gore (1882–1938), a sports editor for various publications, and gave up acting to work as a manager of electric power stations in [[Nevada, Missouri]]. He maintained these jobs until 1909.{{Citation needed |date=October 2023}} 

The couple's only child [[John Huston]] was born on August 5, 1906, in Nevada, Missouri, at which point Rhea gave up her work to concentrate on motherhood.{{Citation needed |date=October 2023}}